Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Low, suave Washington correspondent of the London Post (diehard Tory), suggested recently that the President's tobacco policy is different from any the Cabinet has seen this century. Roosevelt smoked not, nor did his Cabinet in Cabinet. Taft smoked not, but neither did he forbid it. Wilson also permitted smoking in Cabinet, although he did not indulge. Harding used cigarets (occasionally a pipe), passed cigarets to his ministers, but cigar smokers had to bring their own to Cabinet. Now President Coolidge likes domestic cigars. During the Cabinet sessions (Tuesdays and Fridays) there is on the long table...
Forty years ago aristocratic London had no notion of the existence of this son of Merchant Isaacs and daughter of Merchant Cohen. Last week George V, R. I., conferred upon his returning Viceroy a marquisate...
Observers noted that during his "five great years," as he calls them, Lord Reading was virtually a sovereign represented at London by the Secretary of State for India, a post now held by Lord Birkenhead (see p. 11). He was the first Jewish Viceroy, and at the time of his departure for India many doubted that a Jew could uphold Anglo-Saxon prestige among Moslems and Hindus. His success in conciliating Mahatma Gandhi, fomenter of Indian "resistance by non-cooperation," amply disproved the fears of anti-Semites. Last week Indians expressed pleasure at the elevation of Lord Reading...
...about 200 graduates will attend this luncheon, and, in addition, some 50 prominent undergraduates have been invited. Beside the toastmaster, three other men will act as speakers at the dinner. These are President Lowell, Professor A. N. Whitehead, who has recently come to this country from the University of London, and M. A. Cheek '26, President of the Student Council and First Marshal of the close...
...British lawyer is not, however, prominent in Political affairs. From 1919 to 1923 he was a professor in the University of London. He is in addition a corresponding member of I'Institut de Droit compare, and a member of I'Institut de Droit International...